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Eric Martin on the ongoing war in Somalia:
As predicted by so many right-wing pundits, the Ethiopians were going to teach us how to win such a conflct through their potent mixture of unrestrained brutality, disregard for human rights and control of the media - all buttressed by a dearth of back-stabbing Ethiopian/Somali peaceniks. So, with almost a year gone, one would assume that Ethiopia has this insurgency all but mopped up.Not quite. Read the whole thing. It's remarkable that so many conservative commentators identified deeply not just with the Ethiopian operation, but with the Ethiopian methods, while simultaneously embracing the counter-insurgency manual of General Petraeus. That the manual lays out a campaign plan directly antithetical to the Ethiopian methods seemed to escape them...--Robert Farley
